Launch of Mindful Nation UK : Interim Report of the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (MAPPG)

Launch of Mindful Nation UK : Interim Report of the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (MAPPG)

by Vishvapani | Jan 15, 2015 | Featured, Secular Mindfulness

The Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (MAPPG) launched its interim report on Wednesday 14th January in the UK’s Westminster parliament, with proposals for how public policy can help make Britain a more ‘Mindful Nation’. Lord Richard Layard, the leading...
The Mindfulness Initiative & the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group

The Mindfulness Initiative & the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group

by Vishvapani | Dec 17, 2014 | Buddhism in the West, Featured, Mindfulness

I’d like to share news of a unique, project I’m involved in right now: The Mindfulness Initiative and the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) in the UK parliament. I’m a Mindfulness Initiative Associate and part of a team editing APPG’s report called, A...
Launch of Mindful Nation UK : Interim Report of the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (MAPPG)

Discussing Mindfulness in Parliament

by Vishvapani | Apr 11, 2014 | Buddhism in the West, Mindfulness

The Wellbeing Economics All Party Parliamentary Group in the UK’s Westminster parliament had a meeting discussing mindfulness on 9th April 2014. Here’s my report; you can see an ‘official’ write-up here.  I have just attended a meeting at the...
Mindfulness in Westminster on PM (BBC Radio 4 News)

Mindfulness in Westminster on PM (BBC Radio 4 News)

by Vishvapani | Feb 25, 2014 | Buddhism in the West, Mindfulness

Here is a clip of a news programme on PM, the BBC Radio 4 afternoon news programme describing the mindfulness courses that have been running in Westminster for MPs and Lords. Listen Now This is the first mainstream coverage of the courses I know of other than a blog...

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